I got some problems when developing a bilingual web site (English and Traditional Chinese) with a propriety application as backend. It is a typical example of using java to connect to a legacy system.
I confused that when using the i18n facility given in the Struts framework to develop a bilingual web site. I thought there should be two approaches to address this issue. 1. set default page encoding and charset to Unicode and UTF8 2. set 2 set of encoding and charset scheme to cater that switching from English and Traditional Chinese and vice versa. For the first approach, basically it is the easiest way to implement i18n web application using Unicode encoding and UTF8 charset. However, since the backend application cannot process and store Unicode. That is, I have to convert data from the unicode encoding to BIG5 encoding before having the data to be processed by the backend application. Conversely, data retrieved from the backend application has to be converted to Big5 encoding before it reaches the client. But it is hard for me to create some classes to perform encoding conversion. For the second approach I preferred as most of our users use BIG5 as default charset. But I don�t know how to use the Struct framework to allow 2 different encoding methods used interchangeably. It is ought to add an option parameter (-Dfile.encoding = BIG5) to execute the servlet engine (ServletExec 4.1) so that the data retrieved from the backend can be displayed properly Besides, I found that if a jsp page (main page) contains one or more jsp by the �include� tag, the encoding and charset method of the final result depends on the encoding and charset method encompassed in the last �include� page. Regards, Tom __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
